Research Catalog

Mary Prince, slavery, and print culture in the anglophone Atlantic world

Title
Mary Prince, slavery, and print culture in the anglophone Atlantic world / Juliet Shields, University of Washington, Seattle.
Author
Shields, Juliet, 1976-
Publication
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Book/TextUse in library Sc D 22-294Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

Details

Description
72 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen, and their literary friends and relatives. The History connects the Black Atlantic, a diasporic formation created through the colonial trade in enslaved people, with the Anglophone Atlantic, created through British migration and colonial settlement. It also challenges Romantic ideals of authorship as an autonomous creative act and the literary text as an aesthetically unified entity. Collaborating with Prince on the History's publication impacted Moodie's and Pringle's attitudes towards slavery and shaped their own accounts of migration and settlement." --
Series Statement
  • Cambridge elements. Eighteenth-century connections, 2632-556X
  • Elements in eighteenth-century connections, 2632-556X
Uniform Title
Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections.
Subject
  • Prince, Mary
  • Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834
  • Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885
  • 1800-1899
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Slave narratives > West Indies, British
  • Slavery in literature
  • Colonies in literature
  • Slave narratives
  • West Indies > British West Indies
Genre/Form
Slave narratives.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-72).
Contents
Introduction : Mary Prince and the romantic Atlantic world -- From slave narrative to migrant narrative -- Representing slavery in the colonies and the metropolis -- Migration, dispossession, and slavery -- Conclusion : Afterlives.
Call Number
Sc D 22-294
ISBN
  • 1108791654
  • 9781108791656
OCLC
1237632384
Author
Shields, Juliet, 1976- author.
Title
Mary Prince, slavery, and print culture in the anglophone Atlantic world / Juliet Shields, University of Washington, Seattle.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cambridge elements. Eighteenth-century connections, 2632-556X
Elements in eighteenth-century connections, 2632-556X
Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-72).
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Other Form:
Shields, Juliet, 1976- Mary Prince, slavery, and print culture in the anglophone Atlantic world. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108866392 (OCoLC)1246553688
Research Call Number
Sc D 22-294
View in Legacy Catalog